blam! is an interesting project to collaboratively build a database of book (and movie, and CD) reviews. You provide the review and an ISBN number, and blam! automatically adds all the relevant metadata for the item by pulling it from Amazon.com’s Web services interface. One neat twist is that reviews you enter can automatically be streamed out to also be published as entries in your blog — support is in place for Movable Type, UserLand Radio, and Blogger. Reviews are presented collectively on blam!’s sister site, blaxm! [Seen on HubLog]
Posted by Jason Lefkowitz at March 28, 2003Ant's Eye View is edited by Jason Lefkowitz, a consultant and Web developer in Alexandria, Virginia. Got a question, comment, or concern? Let me hear it!
If you think anything I write here represents the opinions of anybody but myself, you need more help than I can give you. The opinions are all mine, folks. Nobody else's. ESPECIALLY not my employer's.
If that's too hard to understand... well, I'm sorry. There's only so much I can do. I'm not a therapist, and I'm not a miracle worker. (Unless you consider staying employed in this economy a miracle.) I wish I could help you work through your delusional belief that I'm speaking for anyone else but myself. Honestly, I do. But in the end, that's a monkey you'll have to get off your back on your own. Sorry.